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General Certificate of Secondary Education: North East Region

Volume 470: debated on Monday 7 January 2008

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Mr. Kemp

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of pupils in (a) the City of Sunderland and (b) the North East achieved more than five A* to C grades at GCSE in each year since 1997. (175223)

Jim Knight

The information requested is given in the following table.

Proportion of 15-year-old pupils1 achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C at GCSE or equivalent—years: 1997-2007 (Sunderland LA and the North East region)

Year2

Sunderland

North East region

1996/973

34.4

36.8

1997/98

32.3

37.1

1998/99

34.6

39.4

1999/2000

38.4

41.7

2000/01

39.2

42.5

2001/02

41.6

44.3

2002/03

44.1

46.8

2003/044

44.2

48,7

2004/05

51.5

53.5

2005/06

54.9

57.3

2006/07

58.7

59.6

1 Number of pupils on roll aged 15 at the start of the academic year, i.e. 31 August.

2 Data for 2007 are provisional and final for all other years.

3 Percentages from 1996/97 include GCSEs and GNVQs.

4 Percentages from 2003/04 include GCSEs and other equivalent qualifications approved for use pre-16.

Source:

Secondary School Achievement and Attainment tables

Figures include achievements in previous academic years.

The increase in the proportion of 15-year-old pupils achieving five or more good GCSEs in Sunderland (24.3 per cent.) and the North East region (22.8 per cent.) compares favourably with a national increase of 15.2 per cent. over the same period.